Hosea 12:7

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

[He is] (g) a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. (g) As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 11:12 to Hosea 12:14 (= Hebrews 12:1-15 ). Ephraim's Infidelity Traced from the Beginning. This is one of the most difficult passages...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He is. merchant. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6): [He, Ephraim, is]. merchant. This is the first of two provocations. See the Structure above; and Co...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

But while the Prophet exhorted the Israelites to repentance, he adds, that such was their perverseness, that it was done without any fruit. Ca...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. He is a merchant - Or a Canaanite; referring to the Phoenicians,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He is a merchant, &c.— Canaan holds the balances of deceit in his hands; Ephraim is so called, because he imitates the practice of fraudulent...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. He is a merchant - a play on the double sense of the Hebrew,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A Reproof of Commercial Dishonesty The Hebrew text divides the chapter more correctly at this v. The prophet returns to the subject of the unfaith...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He is a merchant. — The vivid and fierce light of the prophet’s words is obscured in the English version. The rendering “he is a merchant” originat...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1-14 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvati...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Turn to God, not to Selfish Gain Hosea 11:12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 Though Judah still ruled with God, Hosea 11:12 , yet there was grave fault in hi...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet here follows up the just and becoming resolution which ought to take place in every heart of Jacob's children, whether Ephraim or Judah,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[He is] a merchant ,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 12:7 [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Ver. 7. He is a merchant ] Heb. He is Canaan that...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He is a merchant , &c. Bishop Horsley renders this verse thus: Canaan the trafficker! The cheating balances in his hand! He has set his heart u...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Reproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. B. C. 723....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He is a merchant; Ephraim, of whom here, is so far from being Jacob, or as Jacob, that you may call and account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Makes A Further Appeal To Ephraim And Judah On The Basis Of What Their Ancestor Jacob Did ( Hosea 12:1-7 ). Having first stressed Ephraim's t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

AN APPEAL IS MADE TO JACOB'S EXAMPLE WHICH SIMPLY SERVES TO REVEAL ISRAEL'S PARLOUS STATE AND GUARANTEES THE COMING JUDGMENT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘A trafficker (a Canaanite), the balances of deceit are in his hand, he loves to oppress.' But Hosea had no illusions about what Israel really were...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Hosea 12:7 . Merchant] Marg. a Canaanite, a heathen, unlike Israel, to whom Canaanites were a reproach ( Ezekiel 16:3 ). Oppre...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 12:4 . He found him in Bethel. Christ, the angel, the mystical angel, or the Angel the Word, as St. Clemens of Alexandria calls him: so inde...
The Biblical Illustrator

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress, etc. Fortunes I. Fortunes badly used. 1. Here there is no re...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION In Hosea 12:1-28 God continues his complaint against Ephraim, charging them specially with the pursuit of vain and futile courses t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He is a merchant, rather, "Canaan," the name here applied to the northern kingdom, since, like a dishonest merchant, he sought greatness by deceit an...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Another Serious Reproach
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A merchant — Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant.

⁷ He is a merchant,b the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Related Commentaries of Hosea 12:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 12:7